- Fire-maned Bowerbird
Taxobox
name = Fire-maned Bowerbird
status = VU | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum =Animal ia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo =Passeriformes
familia =Ptilonorhynchidae
genus = "Sericulus "
species = "S. bakeri"
binomial = "Sericulus bakeri"
binomial_authority = (Chapin, 1929)The Fire-maned Bowerbird, "Sericulus bakeri" is a medium-sized, approximately 27cm long,bowerbird that inhabits and endemic to the forests ofAdelbert Mountains inPapua New Guinea . The striking male is black with fiery orange crown and upperback, elongated neck plumes, yellow iris and golden yellow wing patch. The female is a brown bird with brown-barred whitish underparts.Its diet consists mainly of figs, ants and insects. The bower itself is that of "avenue"-type with two sides of wall of sticks.
The Fire-maned Bowerbird was discovered in 1928 by
Rollo Beck . The female is unknown to science until 1959.Due to ongoing habitat loss and limited range, the Fire-maned Bowerbird is evaluated as Vulnerable on the
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.References
* Database entry includes justification for why this species is vulnerable
External links
* [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=5177&m=0 BirdLife Species Factsheet]
* [http://www.redlist.org/search/details.php?species=20140 IUCN Red List]
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